Court Rules Microsoft Must Take
More Steps on Greeting Cards

By

Mark Boslet Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Jan. 29, 1999 5:30 p.m. ET

Microsoft Corp. must rework its "spam" e-mail filter to permit greeting-card notices from Blue Mountain Arts Inc. to pass through unchallenged, a California Superior Court judge said in a preliminary injunction.

The filter, when switched on, routes the notices to a junk-mail computer folder, and it is included in Microsoft's new Outlook Express e-mail reader, a product bundled with version 5.0 of its Internet Explorer...